tombstone
2
8.7
- noun
- /ˈtʊmˌstoʊn/
- Specialized
:
marcador de borrado
- Dr. Sorenson is studying all the tombstones.
Examples
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Tombstones.
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Digging through those piles, the neighborhood found what it sought, and the boxes, now like tombstones, soon populated the stores whose owners they most frightened.
Fiction book (2002) -
An electronic tombstone industry is well established.
Academic text (2000) -
And eventually when the when you finally do the last merge that that tombstone goes away.
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The time between replications with this source has exceeded the tombstone lifetime.
Blog text (7) -
I opened the tombstone.
Academic text (2007) -
A digital architecture would only be architecture inasmuch as immaterial monuments were carved into the networks like electronic tombstones.
Academic text (2000) -
His tombstone is inscribed with a number, 722.55, which was his approximation to the now-accepted 778 foot-pounds per British thermal unit.
Academic text (2007) -
In the database, a tombstone is used to mark records that have been deleted but are needed for consistency checks.
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When data is removed from the system, a tombstone entry ensures that replication processes acknowledge the deletion.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The computing use of tombstone comes from the grave idea. It is a mark left on a record to show it is 'deleted', so other parts of the system know to treat it as gone until it is finally removed.